Care Home Stories : Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bielefeld :
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2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Aging Studies
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| Online Access: | Click to View |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Content
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Part 1: Personal Perspectives
- Pretty Lit tle Angels
- At Home or Nowhere
- Home Interrupted
- A Place for Dad
- On Not Being Invisible
- Part 2: Working and Playing in the Care Home
- Second Sitting
- Shelter in Place
- Long-Term Care for the Future
- Dementia (Re)performed
- "Hooray for You and Me"
- Part 3: Literary and Cultural Perspectives
- My Mother Defines Purgatory
- The Third Age in the Third World
- Who Cares?
- Outside the Nursing-Home Narrative
- Love, Age, and Loyalty in Alice Munro's "The Bear Came over the Mountain" and Sarah Polley's Away from Her
- Part 4: Social and Historical Perspectives
- Rising Fog
- An Enveloping Shadow?
- A New Home, A New Beginning, A New Identity
- Home Care Home
- Home, Hotel, Hospital, Hospice
- Authors.